On Thursday 16 Sep 2010 09:55:33 Alan Pope wrote: > To achieve a reinstall/upgrade of this nature simply boot from a > recent CD and when you get to the partitioning step, choose to > 'manually' partition the disk. Choose where you want to install and > make sure 'Format' is _not_ ticked. The installer will go through > /bin, /usr, /var, /etc, /lib and so on deleting all files before the > installation starts. It will _not_ delete /home. > > Of course this only preserves /home, not your settings in /etc nor > mysql databases in /var or anything else outside of /home, but it's a > very useful feature.
Which distro installers support this? They actually "rm -rf" those directories first? If so, this is indeed an excellent feature. The last Ubuntu installer I used only specified format or not, and didn't say anything about clearing the directories first. What I don't want is existing, non-conflicting older files to be left there. Regards, Tyler -- "If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged." -- Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
